The Sun. — London, England, 1818-02-09 00:00:00

IHE CA lIIOLIC CLAIMS. I'~a T II:; 'L'N. ADDRESS AND APPEAL OF THE 110MAN'CATHO ',ICS OF IRELAND TO THEIR prtoTEsTANT BRE THREN OF THE UNITED KINLiDONI . OF GREAT BRITAIN :IND IRELAND, LErrat "Ale. ,Eo7r-o - a,---11 is hi:possible - to pass over The . follovving.paragraph of this Appeal to oUr justice without stopping to admire the total disregard of all historicatauthority, and theAki assurnptioe ! of pruciples against which ole power of the- Papal Church has nwilitly been exvited. Itead it, I entreat, Sir, with attention, for it fully 'merits all you can bestow upon - it—both as it de velopex the treacherous and fallacious system by which die Popish Casuists think themselves at li berty to assume any form or disguise for the pur pose of promoting the interests of their.Chttrch— and as it supplies their opponents with arms which they acknowledge to be legitimate, against them selves-.--for if they, under these hollow profes siok admit that Chri•tianity commands obedience " to every lawful authority," and if we can wove that they withhold this obedience, they have fur , oishrd us with suffrages decidedly and unequivo cally against themselves.—" We also learn (say they), from the same unerring source of instruc tion (our Saviour), and it is a lesson well worthy of the serious consideration of our opponents, that with what judgment we have judged we shall be judged, and with what measure . we have mea sured it shall be measured to us again. 'We fur ther in common acknowledge that the same bless ed Founder of Christian Faith has instructed us, by precepts and example, to pay obedience to every lawful authority, without any regard to the religious opinions of the persons by whom it is adminis tered l !" Thus they admit, that if they have been perse cutors, they merit persecution it) their turn ; an d that the measure of oppression which they have exercised against others ma/ lawfully be meted against them, whenever the oppressed shall have it in their power to retort. Fortunately for these bold appellants to Scripture authority, the spirit of Protestantism in this country ba4 left the ac count of retributive justice to be settled between the consciences of these met' and the great Searcher cf Hearts. The measure of persecution has not been meted back to then; they have only been restrained from re-filling the measure, which was poured out upon their suffering victims, when they had the POWER to, construe the precepts of the Gospel by a very different rule front that which they now affect to lay down. But, Sir, we must infer principles from facts, and not from professions ! These men profess that they are bound " to pay obedience to every lawftil authority, without any regard to the reli gious opinions of the persons by whom if is adnzi niatered." As a commentary upon this article of their Faith, we will just refer to a clause from the Decrees of the Council of Trent, which is irre ?eatable and unalterable, and which Father GAN.. DOLPHY NOW republishes for the instruction of his Flock, under the direct sanction of an IMPRIMATUR from Rome! " If any one either amongst the clergy or laity, whatever be his dignity, whether imperial or regal, should be so far carried away by avarice, the root of all evil, as by arty art or species of pre text, &c. to venture to seize or convert to their own use, the property, rents, feudal and ac quired l ights, fruits, or emoluments, or any pro fits belonging to Ttle Cuurtcn, or seculiir or regn lar benefice, or religious fund, of the jurisdiction of other religious places, or SHALL PHEVENT their being received by those Persons to whom BY BIGHT thcy appertain, let them be under an ANATHEMA, .89 long as they shall withhold the same from THE .Cnuncri or HER Administrators, and until cum- PL! RESTITUTION having beet) made, they shall have obtained absolution from the Roman Pon tiff." Now this decree is, I repeat, no dead letter; the Roman Catholic Priesthood of Ireland hold, that the Church Properly their's by Divine Right ! Who then is under this sokma ANATHEMA? Who but the King, and all - in authority under 114 n ! He is under the curse of the Roman Pon tiff, and the asserted usurper of that Pontiff's rights ! The whole Popish community are ab 301ved from - their allegiAnce—which subsists wholly and exclusively in their obedience to the See of Rome ! HE echo prevents the Pope and his subjects from taking possession of all Church Property in• these Realms, is in a state of con demnation, and is, ipso facto, excluded from all right and title to allegiance What then arc ,we to infer from the profession of our Popish appel lants, that obedience is due to every .atij - tzi (maw rity 9 I will abswer to this, Sit ! They wean thA there is NO LAWFUL AUTHORITY ill (hi, COUiI• try to allegiance is dtte- , .and whilst thi's, most daring insult is offered to our ondersrand ings, in the assumed language loyalty 'and de ference to the laws of our Protestant Constittk, tion (which, by the bye, they have previously stigmatised as unwise and unjust), they mentally reserve the exclusive duty of allegiance to the only legitimate Gooernment, - which they consider to he vested in their own infallibly Ilene. This, I am aware, wi4 sound harshly iu ears, not only of the professed Liberates, hut even of really liberal minded men, who have nothing in common with them ; but the truth in a crisis like the present must be spoken, or truth itself t% ill be buried amidst the ruin meditated by the Anarchists and Innovators of the day. Who is infatuated enough to believe that the pr-festions of the Binh:lEl'7ll . es, and the Followers of WAITHMAN, Howe, and the WATsoNs, have any thing to do with patriotism or the love of country?—They have all their own mercenary or mischievous objects in view, and deceive none but the most abject and contempti ble of mankind. The Papists have a• still more selfish ant' aggrandizing object before them, which repeated concession appears to hare brought within their grasp—nor is it likely that they would risk a failure, by an overstrained deli , acy as to the adoption of means. That such means, and even stronger, may be resorted to, when the in terests of the Church are concerned, may be in terred from the following fatherly counsel officially delivered by the celebrated Jesuit SANCHES, which I render literally from the original, inserted - in the learned Charge of Archdeacon llooK :—" In like manner it may he considered only a venial offence against Truth to say uro, taking away the J"— that is, when called upon to swear, by substitut ing urn for juro, the whole effect of Perjury is done away ; aud in another instance, this pro found Casuist instructs his Disciples that it is perfectly lawful, if charged with the murder of Peter (or any other person), they may swear to their innocence of the crime they have committed with the mental reservation—that they have another Peter, and not the murdered Peter, in view, at the time of swearing !! ! " Item licebit respondere se non occidisse Permit), intelligendo alium ejusdeos tlonri+tis, .yet etiumeundem et intelligendo antequant nasceretur ! ! !" After such specimens (and they are taken in differently from among hundreds Which the etirions reader may find, attested by the most learned and a viee of the sacred College !) it is neither uncha ritable nor unfair to put the only construction upon the professions of the Popish Appellants.in the offi cial Document berme us, that can reconcile the discordant Principles which are avowed and circn iated by themselves and their Advocates. Where was the principle of obedience to govern us without respect to these religious opinions, when Enthusiasts were manufactured into Assassins under Papal ab solutions—armed and commissioned by Cardinals and Nuncios fur the murder of the Protestant Queen ELIZABETH I How was this divine precept of submission to lawful Powers illustrated in the atro cious and sanguinary Rebellion in the reign of CH ARLES I. ?—when the Papists swore '' not to leave ONE Englishman in their country—that they would have NO KING but ONE of their own nation ; that they would destroy CHARLES, were he in their power, and hoped to drive him and his chil dren to wander its a foreign land !" Was it to be traced in the conduct of O'NEAL, when " be ordered his execrable agent, MACDONEL, at the Castle of Agher, TO MW AC RE ALL THE BRITISH PROTESTANTS in three adjacent Parishes ?" Read LELAND, Sir, for this authority, and hear his fur ther account—" Lout CAULFIELD, who had been conveyed to one of the houses of O'NEAL, was wantonly tind'hasely murdered. Fifty others, in the same place, tell by the poignardsof the Irish. Their miserable prisoners, confined in different places, were now brought out under pretence of being conducted to the next English settlements. Their guards goaded them forwards like Bcasts, and determined the destruction of those who had not ahead.: sunk under their tortures. Sometimes they enclosed them in some house or castle, which they set on fire, with a brutal indifference to their cries, and a hellish triumph over their expiring agonies. Sometimes the captive English were plunged into the first river to which they had been driven by their Tormentors—one hundred and ninety were at once precipitated front the Bt idge of Portadown ; ECCLESIASTICS were seen encouraging the carnage !!"--(LELAND, vol. 3, p. 127.) It it be said that the present generation are not answerable for the crimes of their ancestors, I answer, that the same causes will produce the same effects, when the passions of men are let loose from legal restraint. Besides, these Ap pellants to the Justice of their Protestant Brethren, a s they oow term them, challenge Inquiry, and stand foro.a!d To DEFEND their Ancestors, as well as themselves, from tne charge of Persecution t Ablrtie of Poiver. they identitry (heir Cause with that of their l'rojenitors throughout their History . ! 11,4 he *treed that the Temper of the Times is -'meliorated. atuf that the enlightened Era of the Nineteenth Century would not suffer men to rush.forWand into such terrible excesses, answer,—look to the French Revolution, and l et t h ose %alio halt in their jmlgint4t upon such a plea as this, ansdver me in turn, whether, amidst all the excesses, eneendered by hypocricy and usur pation: in the Great Eaglish Rebellion in the 17th Century, the scene then exhibited .can be in any degree compared with the blood-thirsty, diabo heal Tragedies hourly exhibited in proscribed Paris, during the first years of Jacobin 'Tyranny, iu our enlightened and ameliorated Age of Philoso phy and Refinements ! But, Sir, I aid not willing to avail myself of any advantage not strictly deducible from the Acts of the appellants themselves. There is al ways sufficient ground to apprehend the same Acts from agents similarly influenced and similarly cir cunistanced—but I will bring the Question nearer home, and ask in the emphatic words of an author to whom 1 expressed my obligations in my last letter :—" If (says FABRICIOS), which Heaven forbid, Ireland should be torn by a new civil and religious contest, would no such cruelties be practised ? No such provocations afforded ? Can it be necessary to ask the question ? The wounds inflicted by the late sanguinary Rebellion have scarcely yet been healed. Were Protestants pre cipitated from the bridge of Poradown •in the Rebellion of 1641—and were they not ALSO pre cipitated from the BRIDGE OF WEXFORD in 1798, after pikes had been plunged in their bodies! ! The present Earl of KINGSTON may answer the Ques tion. Were Protestants shut up in houses, and burnt there with a desperate anitnosity and fana tical triumph in the Rebellion of 1641 ; and were they not committed to the flames in TUE BARN OF SCULLABOGUE in 179 S ! ! !—T4n the Rebel lion of 1641 were !lomish Ecclesiastics seen en ! conraging the carriage ; and was No Roz.usn PRIEST, d Ikbel Leader, a REBEL GENERAL In 1798 !!" Who shall deface this record of what has passed before our own eyes and in our own times, or dare presumptuothly deny that THE Wish to overthrow and extirpate-the .Church of England and Ireland, anti wit-1 it the Protestant (JON of the Empire, is only resJained by the want of sUfficient power to give it utterance, and that the lust step. to POWER 110 W insolently claimed and clainourousty demanded is nut in tended to realize that wish, and to tear open the wounds tinder which our poor Country suffered for so many Centuries !—At all events, here are recorded principles anti facts ; decrees of Cont:cils which go to forbid allegiance to a Protestant King, anti the declaration of the Popish Hierarchy of the present day that these Decrees are to be obeyed AS TI-IK WORD OF GoD ; we have history to prove that POW EAS given to Papists is but a convertible terns for PERSECUTION, and that the con duct of these Papists in the Rebellion of 1541, %vete only Carried to greater excess of cruelty because they were not so promptly re strained and overpowered as in the Rebellion of 1793, not 20 years ago. And we' now see, un der the loin) of an oiEcial address from these very Papists, demanding Pow a at the hands of their Protestant Brethren, the following Profession of Faith and of Principles, which I re-trancribe, mere ly that you, Sir, and your Readers, may receive the full impressian upon your minds, and rumi nate upon the sincerity of those verbal pledges, which these men, and their wretched or design ing advocates, are so ready to proffer as a security against their abuse of power : " We further, in common, acknowledge that the same blessed Founder of Christianity has in structed us, by precepts and example, to pay obe dience to every lawful authority, without any re gard to the religious opinions of the Persons by whom it is administered !!" Shame, where is thy blush !---Britons ! where sleeps the spirit of your Fathers ? LANFII.\NC. FRANCE. AUTHENTIC LETTER 1:10M PARIS, OF THE 4TI INST. It is now believed, on good ~ -4rotiods, that the Concordia; will not he presented to the Chamber of Deputies this Session. The Committee charged will: the Report are, it would appear, coo plete;y divided on the question : tour of the M.mbers, amourst whom are Messrs. DESPATYS and Fitoc DI LA licw.LAvv, is 11l not hear - tat the Btll : others are, lid posed t'o adopt it ; soul?, it ; modificotions. Messietrs MAR and TRINCWELAGUF declare it ism)! CVell stltliCiently tiliroonontuiti. Ales. ,, tori oLLivET .111(1 :I,IVIERE C011•1•Ss that t!ie (ele , r.thle. and that they every day receive kite's from their depattinents, playing tiiem to exert thentselv::: , Against . its 1)6:4; plopONted," hilt the: t•Ky, lhor since the Bishops ore noniinrved, the mast Le ccepted. Notwithstandlog this, the lal)oltrs of ,r e the C. -- ,e'trottee do hot ativahre. the D"l' e RICIILIEU and iI. LmixE, who, in defianc e (", public opinion, insisted on it's being su banittc a the Chambers, seem ..ane j uisliecl by the strong tti sons to the contrary. The tact is, if the takes l'h"e, the late o! the Ministry may be P re— , meted, tor the Ministry is at present so eotaugleti with the system o f Gt r ver n m 0.0 a ent, that 0) the one will necessarily lead to that of the other authors of the Censertr Eniopi;en Say, t bat . the Minister ought to be l art on his trial who re sewed the Concordat to the Cita othei- of liePu tie l 4. This ‘vould rot he strikin g a t th e ro ot of the Almisters did tint frame the Concordat, `)"- 'heY 'fled to 'Hutto! and tender it less ohlectiow" Ide in their Project of tie Organic Lath. 11 '7- 0 Concordat is, as it is well known, the work M. de P.---, a than without either kno wle:gt; or cooseience, who Duty tries to keep - in f 3 " tir ' without taring what ntean9 he uses for the pose ; a perfidious friend of the KING, and pill,;: cipal author of the disasters of the 20th M arc y who not being able to regain his master's ta v" ' seeks a support in the Princes, and flatlets self that H new reign will restore him the influeLic he has lost. lf• The peat error of the Ministry is to have i , : si fered such it man to have represented O l te ': ; 11 e at the Court of Rome, where lie display s magnificence of a Satrap (how, diff erent front II: situation as a Valet, with a napkin under his at Hart well !), and he ha.; succet-ded cowardly concessions, a ll banef u l to Iris co,'" in Tii, gaining great influence amongst the CAra ii :„ ? - so ttiat there is little doubt that, w e re the to die, be would become Ma s t e r of the Co" el 7:it and be able to nomittate the new POPE. "fel „ce, by hisialarits that he had acquire 4 this infl" e ; and that he exercised it for the glory and h ile-c o e . of his country, one would honour him; b," t , i cc hesitate not to a ssert, th a t h e h a s sa • cr iticed.re c " -- 10 ,4 to his own ambition and his avarice, and 11) , ° 1 1 0 ,... influence lie has acquired is the greatest tune that could occur to the French Monar"j • is The reign of inperstition and Bigotry is " vr s i c if can never return in France ; alla eve nt 's:,;; , every day prove, that the attempt to re-csr 3 , l ', o would produce a new evolution, which all Europe could not arrest, ne Co' The error, the grand emu. of the F e r &w e, binet, .s only to do things hv halves ; t he Y r ; le v but " hint a fault, and hesitate 0 ,4 complain they are badly served, both fibi.("“ at 110ille, rind they place their confidence in bitterest etrettries. This insensate vocillatiog 01 :; duct not only dishonours them-, but the system which coalesced Eitione in alv"' sworn to 'maintain.. .xerf- Tlav, until is, the Ministry is barfly cotilr'd i e There are amongst them man, who,. kuovu' 4 4 , l e KING to b e znorial, ate ing., 111 ‘. 2 „ themselves with the powers in posse, whrs c ciples they know .are Widely tliflerent tj Or he , t rt ; thin prc..vent them from ioinib g . and hdinl the great caose of I , olllding - 4 - ( ' )f pinesi and tranquillity of France on t he 1 1 - ii; o,,,titti.tionAl liberty. kn. 3 future 'ere!' ilevelo d e the miserable intri4ties of those weni), TIIEA..Nt7CAL. REGISTER- Perform,/ Gut S - ,,tur./4,e e v:o.kt; n r iJr TtYiATI itoYA t'` ) ," , 2 )-ft' C Abygios : Schin. Mr. Kean ; Mrs. M•ic"Y l " . which, 'rite frisinuan in .I.Anichni. 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Those of Fridiy, which were 11 `f, this morning, have not come to hand. Th e 4 nal des Debuts. of Thursday contains some f" rt ' ,it ', details of considerable interest respecting the ' l t o ec•nt transactions at Algi e rs, which are 6 13td 0 have been received at Paris by Sir SYDNEY sMil i and by him conanunicated to the Anti-1' 01.4 -L Stittilioll. 1 9 t will be seen that though this narriti`" to , sileut as to the act 01 de!iberate murder have been committed by the I)EY, y e t it c lisl as‘ atineities, zwil relates ilist , ,ln'ees 01 violent ' llll , t 5; ratinical conduct on his part, so:ue of vv ° l -, 11 he has advi!sedly put himsclf in .a stare of l)° 5611 with all the Christian P ossers. • The tolit)wing is tI a s'atentent Hii+:detl lO ' " The f'aot , io of the I , arditiian poiacre, la Bel l-s.‘“'e' i ..vhich arrived at ttce Lazaretto of l'oriMahoo, on It' c Dee. rol,Lr last, harm,;.klgiers the 2d of the s aint 11)()° he I C:10Its, as well as th e fogiove passengers on board, that r;l.-W DCy, Ali -110 Ija, established his poser by :tid of a con.: hody of Moors, no longer set a rty 1)111 01, , to 1145 fu, y or his tyrannical eohdoct : that all the k: uf( l ß f i j e l'osvers, Witt-im (ii,stioetior,, h a d be , outr., ,, ed ; t hat 3 1 ' hat been ruenaud and terri fi ed be a'ittinlerous "")., .if net_;roes, of ssloon the I)ey'4 Gitar4 and CiouF t are of c°l l t yh o had forced Iheinsrlyes into the house' • the security of which 145:1 ceased to be io vi°l3.l' .. Cite Captain reports also, 1::41 j i-lada had ca L ' s("l to I,‘: that 4. , •:loyeti the Ancietit Palaue of his fir edeces . o r ' ; t i• .:ad eital)i,i,e,l hims e lf ill a fort, ealleil le C ia teau ' ' l . O it:treur; ilial. Le Lai col h:.•sitated to seize the treasure •11 $1